SOUTHTRAC-GW: An airborne field campaign to explore gravity wave dynamics at the world's strongest hotspot

M Rapp, B Kaifler, A Dörnbrack… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The southern part of South America and the Antarctic peninsula are known as the world's
strongest hotspot region of stratospheric gravity wave (GW) activity. Large tropospheric …

Observations of gravity wave refraction and its causes and consequences

M Geldenhuys, B Kaifler, P Preusse… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Horizontal gravity wave (GW) refraction was observed around the Andes and Drake
Passage during the SouthTRAC campaign. GWs interact with the background wind through …

Clear air turbulence observed across a tropopause fold over the Drake Passage—a case study

P Rodriguez Imazio, A Dörnbrack… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An aircraft turbulence encounter over the Drake Passage is investigated by combining
unique high‐frequency flight level data, vertical profiles of a near‐simultaneous radiosonde …

Case study of stratospheric Intrusion above Hampton, Virginia: lidar-observation and modeling analysis

G Gronoff, T Berkoff, KE Knowland, L Lei… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract On 2019-02-14, at 1: 00 UTC, a large increase of ozone density at 8 km altitude was
detected above Hampton, Virginia using the NASA Langley Mobile Ozone Lidar, LMOL …

[HTML][HTML] POLSTRACC: Airborne experiment for studying the polar stratosphere in a changing climate with the high altitude and long range research aircraft (HALO)

H Oelhaf, BM Sinnhuber, W Woiwode… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
POLSTRACC: Airborne Experiment for Studying the Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate
with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO) in: Bulletin of the American …

[HTML][HTML] Stratospheric mountain waves trailing across northern Europe

A Dörnbrack - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Planetary waves disturbed the hitherto stable Arctic stratospheric polar vortex in the middle
of January 2016 in such a way that unique tropospheric and stratospheric flow conditions for …

High‐resolution observations of turbulence distributions across tropopause folds

J Söder, C Zülicke, M Gerding… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we interpret two vertical turbulence measurements. We acquired these
uninterrupted high‐resolution dissipation rate profiles with the balloon‐borne instrument …

Mixing at the extratropical tropopause as characterized by collocated airborne H2O and O3 lidar observations

A Schäfler, A Fix, M Wirth - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The composition of the extratropical transition layer (ExTL), which is the transition zone
between the stratosphere and the troposphere in the midlatitudes, largely depends on …

[HTML][HTML] Unusual chlorine partitioning in the 2015/16 Arctic winter lowermost stratosphere: observations and simulations

S Johansson, ML Santee, JU Grooß… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The Arctic winter 2015/16 was characterized by cold stratospheric temperatures. Here we
present a comprehensive view of the temporal evolution of chlorine in the lowermost …

[HTML][HTML] Lowermost-stratosphere moist bias in ECMWF IFS model diagnosed from airborne GLORIA observations during winter–spring 2016

W Woiwode, A Dörnbrack, I Polichtchouk… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Numerical weather forecast systems like the ECMWF IFS (European Centre for Medium-
Range Weather Forecasts–Integrated Forecasting System) are known to be affected by a …